Getting married is a significant step in life, but what happens when things don’t go as planned on that wonderful day?
This is what happened to one woman, and she now seeks a divorce from her husband because of a wedding cake trick he pulled.
The bride, who goes under the pseudonym Give Him Till February, detailed why she wants to press forward with the divorce in Slate Magazine’s advice column “Dear Prudence.”
She wrote:
“I got married just before Christmas and am hoping to be divorced or annulled by the end of January.
“I never cared about getting married, but I wasn’t opposed to it. So when my boyfriend proposed in 2020, we decided to go for it.
“We each took on about half the responsibility for organizing the wedding, but I think I was pretty reasonable about compromise when he really wanted something.”
But her only request she had for the wedding was not to have cake rubbed in her face, which he didn’t.
However, it didn’t stop him from taking things to the next level.
She continued:
“Being a reasonable man who knows me well, he didn’t. Instead, he grabbed me by the back of the head and shoved my head down into it. It was planned since the cake was DESTROYED, and he had a bunch of cupcakes as backup.”
The next day she told him they “were done”.
Everyone told her that she was “overreacting” – but the woman explained that she is “very claustrophobic after a car accident years ago” and that she panicked after being “shoved into a cake and held there.”
“I am VERY claustrophobic after a car accident years ago, and I absolutely panicked at being shoved into a cake and held there,” she said.
She further added that she loves him despite not feeling that emotion at the moment and knows that he loves her too, which “means not giving up at the first hurdle.”
She finished by saying that she doesn’t want to get back with him but “everyone is so united and confident in their assurance I am making a terrible mistake that I wonder if they are right.”
Jenée Desmond-Harris, the outlet’s “Dear Prudence,” gave the woman valuable advice about doing what is best for her at the end of the day.
“I think what he did was a red flag about not respecting you and your wishes. Make a mental note about which of your loved ones don’t seem to value your happiness, and continue with your divorce,” said the outlet.
“Everyone’s sure you’re making a mistake, but they’re not the ones who have to wake up every day with a man whose behaviour massively turns them off. You are. So you only have to listen to yourself.”
And when the post was shared in Reddit’s Wedding Shaming forum, people were equally outraged by the groom’s actions.
“It’s not even a cutesy splat of cake on the nose, he slammed her head into it and humiliated her.”
“He didn’t just not respect her only boundary, he found the worst, most aggressive way possible to violate it.”
“She asked for one thing and he couldn’t respect that?”
“I would have been SWINGING if my fiance/husband did that to me. Not that violence should be the first answer but just as a knee-jerk reaction to having my head shoved into something and held there just to get them to stop.
“I would have no remorse whatsoever if I hit him. That’s an absolute no no for me.”
Read more here: Slate
Sources: Awm, Dailymail, Za.opera.news